Acceptable degree of certainty is not fact. What was thought to be a proven scientific fact 50 years ago today can seem down right silly. The scientific method was used by the "scientists" who said cigarettes were safe. We can't all spend our lives in a laboratory, researching, we must choose someone to believe. Knowing who employs a "scientist" is very important. The criminal corporations have proven time and again they will lie about science to achieve a desired end.
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So you are saying every university in the world, every biotech start-up, every brewery, every state, every research institution and every planetarium is a criminal corporation?
I know it seems hard to understand, but most scientists decide to be scientists because they love what they are doing. As a matter of fact, to be a scientist you spend roughly 3-4 years in college, 3-5 years working on your PhD, 1-3 years on post-doc (all this in universities usually), and then start out with roughly 40k a year. It is a lot of effort and not a lot of gain. So stating that science is all about money is absolutely wrong. Science is more passion than people think. Science is not about dollar signs. So I would rather trust a peer-reviewed paper, than a magazine that needs blow up every minor story to intrigue people to buy their paper (same applies to websites). I think that scienctists are more critical than all the conspracists that claim to be critical.
Yes, theories change. But that is because science is critical with itself and considers new evidence that arises (which I cannot say about most "scepticists". Cheers
Well said.